Insurance

Insurance plays a major role in countless legal and business disputes. Understanding how insurance fits into the analysis can positively impact the resolution. Nexsen Pruet’s Insurance Practice Group understands the many facets of insurance disputes and stands ready to provide insurance carriers, businesses, and individuals the kind of cost-effective, skilled representation.

Deep experience in insurance

Our insurance attorneys represent clients in many insurance-related matters, including substantial work in organization, licensing, regulation, examination and rate regulation in both the administrative and litigation areas. In addition, we are involved in direct representation of insurance companies in litigation and in the representation of their insureds, primarily in defense areas.

We have significant experience and resources in researching and drafting insurance coverage opinions for insurers, handling their coverage and bad faith litigation, and representing them in regulatory compliance matters. Nexsen Pruet attorneys represent clients at the state, regional and federal level.

Diverse capabilities in many areas

Nexsen Pruet’s diverse insurance practice enables us to handle routine and complex matters for commercial general liability, auto liability, property/casualty, life and health insurers, as well as for insureds, in first-party and third-party disputes. Our attorneys have years of experience handling professional liability claims for a variety of professions.

We also have extensive legal experience in litigation matters involving serious bodily injury, wrongful death, major property damage, business torts, intellectual property, lost profits, and declaratory, equitable, and injunctive relief. We have considerable courtroom experience and skills and have handled many insurance matters through trial and appeals in state and federal courts.

Our practice areas include:

Advertising liability claims

Alternative dispute resolution

Arson/fraud/inflated claims

Auto liability claims

Bad faith/extra-contractual claims

Business interruption claims

Defense of first- and third-party liability claims

Directors and officers liability claims

Employment practices liability claims

Environmental claims (pollution, mold)

ERISA claims

Errors and omissions claims

Excess and surplus lines claims

Fidelity and surety claims

Financial institution liability claims

Insurance application misrepresentation claims

Insurance fraud

Life insurance claims

Health/accident/disability claims

Insurance agency claims

Mediation/arbitration of insurance disputes

Premises liability

Premium disputes

Professional liability claims

Property/casualty/liability coverage claims

Property subrogation claims

Regulatory/licensing compliance

Risk management

Title insurance claims

Underwriting

Unfair claim settlement practices claims

We excel at property subrogation

Our Property Subrogation and Recovery team regularly represents clients involved with all sorts of property loss cases, many of which are extremely complex. Our team handles complex multi-party cases involving fire losses, water and flood-related property losses, catastrophic structural failures, construction deficiencies, and mechanical and electrical defects and errors. We specialize in recovering monies for our insurance clients.

Experience in claims resulting from catastrophes

Our attorneys also have extensive experience in handling insurance matters that result from natural and manmade disasters, including the floods and hurricanes that so often plague the Carolinas, acts of nature, explosions, and fires. Beyond that, we are skilled in the numerous issues that can emerge from disasters, such as bad faith claims, errors and omissions, mishandled claims, business interruption, and the failure of agencies to procure appropriate coverage or policy limits.

Additionally, Nexsen Pruet’s Insurance Practice Group has worked extensively with federal government agencies, from FEMA to the Small Business Administration.

Premises liabilities experience

The firm represents self-insured clients owning stores and other properties in negligence claims brought against them for personal injury on premises. This includes shoppers slipping and falling, boxes or displays falling onto shoppers, and shoppers tripping over objects in the store. We have represented a wide range of grocery store chains, retailers, restaurants, and others in these kinds of claims.

A related area of the law involves claims for false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, or defamation made by customers who believe they were wrongly accused of shoplifting, or who were wrongly reported to have written a bad check. These kinds of claims arise often in a retail setting, and we have handled these for insurance company and retail clients.

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Joan is well versed in all areas of environmental law and regulation for a diverse number of applications. She has provided sound advice on real estate matters, and regulatory matters involving operating permits and rules governing operations in South Carolina and North Carolina. Joan is responsive to client requirements, is an effective communicator, and has been successful at providing sound advice in working with government agencies to amicably resolve complicated regulatory matters.

As an attorney myself, when I needed assistance in a white collar matter, I was immediately referred toMs. Riley by more than one attorney. Right to the point, Ms. Riley's knowledge of the law, ability to communicate, and abilities as an advocate are second to none. Ms. Riley, in my opinion, is one of the brightest and most effective attorneys I have ever met.

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Diversity

Nexsen Pruet recognizes the importance of having lawyers that reflect the broad diversity within our client base, our jury system, our colleagues, and our community at large. To that end, we are committed to recruiting minority candidates, reducing minority attrition, supporting minority organizations, and expanding and improving our diversity program. We also recognize that the pursuit of a diverse workplace is, and should be, ongoing.

As a means of promoting these interests, we created the Nexsen Pruet Diversity Scholarship Program. Prior to creating the scholarship, we completed a written plan that identified methods by which the firm could recruit, hire, and retain minority lawyers. The plan includes expanding our recruitment efforts to other law schools, increasing recruitment of lateral minority and female candidates, and continuing to develop and enhance our relationships with minority law organizations such as the Black Law Students Association. Our goal is to identify qualified minority candidates who may be potential members of the firm.

Nexsen Pruet understands the need for and value of increased diversity, and we are strengthening and building upon our commitment to provide an inclusive environment within our firm. As such, we will maintain a continuing focus on doing whatever we can to achieve the important and necessary goal of diversity.

Nexsen Pruet Diversity Scholarship

Strengthening the Lawyers of Tomorrow...Today

The Nexsen Pruet Diversity Scholarship aims to:

Support diversity within our firm and the bar

Enhance educational opportunities for talented minorities in the field of law

Inform minority law students of opportunities for private practice in the Carolinas

The Scholarship Program will award $3000 to one or more exceptional first year minority law students planning a career in North or South Carolina.

All scholarship recipients will be considered for summer employment in one of the Nexsen Pruet offices upon completion of their first year of law school. Scholarship recipients are invited to re-apply for additional scholarships during their second and third years of law school.

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